Kemp, 57, was a prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney’s office who also has experience as a criminal defense attorney. She’s a Democrat who was recently re-elected to a second term on the 204th Judicial District Court bench, where she began serving in 2015.

“As a prosecutor, I served under three unique District Attorneys, and each instilled values that have impacted me and made me into a better judge. As a defense attorney, I became aware of the challenges defendants and their attorneys face in preparing a defense. While serving as a judge, I have become keenly aware of the difficulties that victims, defendants, witnesses and jurors encounter when involved in the criminal justice system,” she told the Dallas Morning News during her 2018 re-election campaign.

A grand jury in Dallas indicted Guyger, 30, on Friday. The panel found enough evidence for a murder charge instead of the initial manslaughter charge.

On the night of Sept. 6, she illegally entered Jean’s apartment, which was located one floor above her own, and shot Jean, 26, to death — that much has been established as true. But everything else that transpired during that fatal encounter was not exactly clear, with only Guyger’s word to go on.

She claimed that following a long day on the job as a Dallas police officer, she implausibly mistook his apartment for her own and, after ordering Jean not to move, shot him twice. Her story was greeted by doubt because of several factors, especially her assertion that Jean’s door was ajar. Videos posted on social media by neighbors appeared to show that apartment doors in the building shut automatically, which seemed to indicate that Guyger was lying.

Kemp was a top prosecutor in the officer of Graig Watkins, who was Texas’ first elected African-American District Attorney. In 2013, she was the lead prosecutor in a case involving a man who drowned two sons in a creek to get back at their mother.

After Guyger was booked into Jail Friday afternoon but released on a $200,000 bond, Kemp ordered her to surrender her passport and not to travel outside Texas without court approval.

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Bush continued the Southern Strategy begun under Nixon: running for president by FOSTERING deeply rooted white supremacy. Bush ran the now-famous Willie Horton ad to stoke fear of ALL Black people & promote the DEADLY myth of the "dangerous Black criminal"https://t.co/A4cW96IQGDpic.twitter.com/0s0Thyn10z

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Rest in peace, George H.W. Bush (1924-2018), 41st President of the United States. In 1988, he hired Lee Atwater as his campaign chair, who ran the infamous race-baiting and slanderous "Willie Horton" TV ad during the presidential campaign. And that's how I'll always remember him. pic.twitter.com/ylY9mUqj0w

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Set the table for the debacle that was the Iraq invasion in ‘04, and was the first modern Presidential candidate who “went there” with the racist Willie Horton ad in ‘88. Gloss over all you like, those are tough very bad legacies to forget. https://t.co/kYB7gMO43v

Continue reading Social Media Remembers The Racist Willie Horton Ad As President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94

Social Media Remembers The Racist Willie Horton Ad As President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94

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George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at the age of 94 on Friday in his beloved Texas. But while some news outlets remembered the former vice president, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and father to the 43rd president as a devoted family man and war hero, others on social media said they still felt the lingering pain from one of the lower points of Bush's political career.
The single term president won the White House in 1988, but not before his campaign put out a political ad that rubbed many the wrong way, especially African-Americans. At the time of a contentious election season, Republicans released the now-infamous TV commercial about a man named Willie Horton in order to explicitly exploit white fear of Black men.
https://twitter.com/_CharlesPreston/status/1068741574069080071
Horton was a convicted murderer who raped a white woman while out of prison under a weekend furlough program in Massachusetts. His "scowling mug shot became a shorthand for out-of-control crime, dog-whistle racial politics, and who partly brought down Gov. Mike Dukakis’s presidential campaign," Boston.com reminded readers in 2015.
As of early Saturday morning, "Willie Horton" was a top trending topic on Twitter, showing that news of Bush's death was evoking not-so-fond memories of the 53-second ad intended to send white voters flocking to the polls to vote for the then-vice president in theoretical exchange for protection from the alleged hoards of Black criminals.
The ad falsely depicted Dukakis' Massachusetts as the only place with a furlough program, as more than 40 states had similar programs, the Washington Post pointed out in 1988. The federal government also had a furlough program in the 1980s.
“I’m not this picture they paint – dumb nigger. You follow?’’ Horton said in 2015 interview with The Marshall Project. “I hate to use that word, but that’s the picture they painted. ‘He’s uneducated, he’s this, he’s that.’ I never lived up to that name that they painted with that picture, which was ‘Willie.’ My name is William. No one has ever called me ‘Willie.’’’
Despite the commercial (or, because of it), Bush and his vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle, who famously misspelled the word "potato," beat Dukakis and his running mate Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen.
The commercial was widely seen by liberals and humanitarians alike as an effort to continue the nation's tradition of white supremacy that has continued up until the current president, who recently released his own political ad that many people said was simply an updated version of the Willie Horton spot from three decades earlier.
Donald Trump tweeted the video on Halloween Day that blamed Democrats for allowing an undocumented Mexican immigrant to kill two California deputies in a sign that the president said meant that liberals would allow hoards of Hispanic migrants into the country to do more of the same.
The video showed deputies removing Luis Bracamontes from a courtroom in February because of his outbursts about killing more cops, during his sentencing.
“Illegal immigrant, Luis Bracamontes, killed our people!” reads the opening text of the ad. “Democrats let him stay.”
Watch the Willie Horton ad below to fully understand the still-simmering rage of Twitter users, in particular, who were resolute Friday evening and into Saturday morning in reminding the world of the hurt, pain and overall damage the commercial caused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y